The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Fox, sentence 2

As they went along, picking up provisions on the way--a stray mouse here, a fat chicken there--they began an argument to while away the time between bites.

Who acts: Cat · What happens: go along, pick up, begin, while away · To what, where: provisions, way, argument

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 began	advcl
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 picking	punct
6	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 picking	compound:prt
8	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 picking	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 provisions	nmod
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 mouse	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 mouse	det
14	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 mouse	amod
15	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 way	appos
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 mouse	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 chicken	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 chicken	det
19	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 chicken	compound
20	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 picking	obl
21	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 chicken	advmod
22	--	--	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 argument	det
26	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 while	mark
28	while	while	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
29	away	away	ADP	_	28 while	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 time	det
31	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 while	obj
32	between	between	ADP	_	33 bites	case
33	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 time	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go along	past	Cat				along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick up	gerund	Cat not said here	provisions	the way		a fat chicken obl	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provision=Topic
3	begin	past	Cat	a argument				tree rules
4	while away	to-infinitive	Cat not said here			time		tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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